Taking Notes & Tracking Progress
The site lets you track your progress and take notes on content and on media. These features were originally added for the educational content, so lessons are the best example. On a lesson you'll see a set of controls: a status with three states - not started, in progress, or finished - and a little notepad icon for writing notes, with some basic formatting and a save button.
A lot of content also has a video attached, and the video is tracked as its own separate thing underneath the content. It has the same status and its own note - the icon looks filled in when a note exists. When you play the video it moves to in progress, and the progress stays in sync between the video and the content, but the notes stay separate.
Notes and progress on media are handled through the media library, in addition to the videos that live on content. It's the same interface whether you're looking at a document or a video - you can track your progress and take notes on the law books, like American Jurisprudence, right there. And because content and media are tracked separately, a note you made on a video shows up when you view that video in the library.
Your progress shows up as icons in a lot of places - in the media library, where you can also filter by status, and in related-content listings next to lessons and FAQs. One thing to know: course completion isn't something you set yourself; it's calculated automatically from the lessons you've finished inside. These icons are handy when you're moving around the site or trying to work through everything on a particular topic.
There are also two "command center" pages in your user account area - content engagement and media engagement. Both show a sortable table: status, name, type (or format, for media), whether you have notes, when the item was last updated, and when you last engaged it. It defaults to sorting by what you touched most recently, you can sort by any column, and you can hover a row to see the note you took.
Each page has a summary split in two. On the left is your current status - how many items are reset, in progress, and finished right now, matching the table. On the right is the all-time status, which is cumulative: if you finished a lesson and then reset it, it tallies in both finished and reset. It's a way to see whether you've been through something multiple times versus where you generally stand as you've learned. The media summary works the same way, with format - documents and videos - instead of content type, and it covers both the media library and videos attached to lessons and documents.
00:09
Welcome everybody. In this video, we are going to go over taking notes and tracking your progress on the website. And we'll also just call this engagement. So we have the ability to track your progress and take notes for content and media separately. And there's a part of that can be a little bit confusing, so I'll go over that and explain why. And we will also go over this section of your account area where you can see your progress.
00:42
The original purpose for adding these note-taking and progress-tracking features to our website was for the educational content, and that's probably the best thing to use as an example. So we are going to go to our community forum lesson to start, and you'll see these controls here are how you interact with and do this. So you've got your status here, which we have three, so it's not started, in progress, or finished. And then you have this to take notes, this little notepad icon. So you can click that and write some notes you have in here.
01:15
And you can use these to format it if that helps you with anything. Here you'll see the floppy disk icon, so you can click that to save, and there you go. So that is how you can interact with it and keep track of your progress and notes on the content. At this point, a lot of the content on our site also has video format with it.
01:42
So you'll see here if there's a video, there will be a separate thing to track under it. So it's got the same progress, and you'll also notice here's the icon button. You can see here the content is filled in, that means there is a note, and here it's not. So you can write a separate note in here, and this will be for the video. When there are videos, it will also track along with the video.
02:13
So if I play it, you'll see now that the video started, it's in progress. And another thing that you might have noticed here is that when this progress started, this one kept in sync. So the progress will keep in sync between the two, but the notes will be separate, which we will go over that next. When it comes to taking notes or tracking your progress on media, that's done through our media library here, in addition to just the videos that are on content.
02:46
So if you are looking at a document, for example. In the media library, it's the same interface. So you can see down here you can track your progress. If you're going through a document, you can also take notes. So we do have law books in here. American Jurisprudence is one. So you can take notes on the law books if that helps you. And it's just the same with videos in here.
03:14
Let's go to our community forum tutorial, because you saw me on the other page make a note on that. So here you can see that note, the one that we put on the video when we were looking at that. So that is how you can take notes and track your progress on the media in the library. You've probably already noticed this as we've been going through some of these videos, but we do show you your progress with these icons at separate areas of the site. So you can see here in the media library, you can see if something is completed or something's in progress.
03:55
Additionally, in the media library, we do have the ability to filter based on this, so you can see things based on those different statuses. In addition to the library, we do have this on our content as well in related content. So here you can see, we can go to this FAQ and see related content. And you can track here and see, "Okay, well, I've finished that lesson." And in addition to that, I will add that here on the courses, these, you don't actually control it.
04:28
It's based on your completion of the lessons inside. So that does track your progress, but that's automatic. And so here's just another example you can see in related content on the side of this lesson. So here's something that I was in progress with. So you can use these to help you as you're traversing the site trying to find new things, or maybe you're focusing on a certain topic and you're trying to learn everything related to it. You can use those to keep track of what you've looked at and what you haven't.
05:02
In addition to that, we do have these two kind of, let's say, command center pages for tracking your content and media engagement. So if you go to your user account area, which you can get to through the top links there, you'll see these two links in the navigation for content engagement and media engagement. And you can look at these pages to get an overview of everything that you've done.
05:30
This is the content engagement page of your user account area, and there's a little bit of explanation of it here. So what you see here is a table. You can see the status of content. You can see the name of it, what type of content it is. You can see whether you have notes on it. This column is for when the content was last updated, and this column is for the last time you engaged that content. When you come to this page, what will be at the top of this list, the default sort is the last content you engaged. And you can sort by any of these columns, so you can see what you engaged the longest ago. You can sort by when the content was.
06:05
You can see which things you've taken notes on or sort by your status. And in addition to that, you can actually hover over these. So if you take specific notes and you're trying to remember what it was, specific thing you're looking at, you can hover over these and see the notes that you were taking. And there's also this summary. And so there's one more thing on this page that's not in the rest. So you can see this little icon, like the recycling one, kind of. That's for content that you've reset.
06:31
So you've set it back to not started if you're on those pages using that dropdown. So this is actually split into two. You can see how you've engaged the content, a summary, let's say. And the way that I can explain this is on the left, what it says, current status, that'll match what you see in these columns over here. So you have one piece of content that's in the reset status, 27 for in progress, six finished. What you have over here on the right is the all-time status.
06:59
So this is kind of cumulative. So say you finished a lesson and then you've reset it. There'll be a tally in finished and in reset, and actually with in progress, too. If you went through the whole gamut, it'll have in progress, finished, and reset. So it's a cumulative way for you to help understand if you've gone through some content multiple times or the more general status as you've engaged and learned.
07:34
This is the media engagement page of your user account area, and it's just like the content engagement page. You can see that there's the explanation here. The main difference here is that with media, we just have format. So we've got documents and videos. This includes media in our media library and videos that are on things like lessons or documents, things like that. And there's also your engagement summary.
08:01
So just like the content page, you have the current status of things and then all-time status. So say you finish every single thing, all of our media, this would remain at, let's see, what was it? 47. And then you would have in progress and reset. So that's your cumulative all-time status. And that wraps it up for content and media engagement on our site. We've got the ability to take notes and track your progress.
08:30
People find this mostly useful for educational purposes. It can be very helpful for the lessons. And if you're using the library and studying the law books, it's great to have a way to take notes on them right there. So thanks for sticking around through this whole one. We hope that you find these features in our site useful.
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